Cessna A185F
N5172R is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Waterhouse Roy Todd, a partnership in Mccall, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 5, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503012
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A67E1E (octal 51477036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 5, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00982195
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waterhouse Roy Todd
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 307 E Park St Ste 301
Mccall, ID 83638-5255 - Co-owners
- Waterhouse Dawn L
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5172R, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Waterhouse Roy Todd, a partnership, certificate issued June 2, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 5, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5172R according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N5172R: Accident on December 18, 2001 at Reno, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185F · operated under 091
Wear on the tail wheel thrust plate spacers resulted in the compression springs binding on the thrust plates and the tail wheel sticking, so that the pilot could not maintain directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02LA052 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data